. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. Beekeeping In addition to the value of the honeybee as a honey- producer, it has a value to agriculture which is probably far greater. Peculiarly enough, the bee- keeper is usually not the one who receives the greatest profit from the presence of his bees in the com- munity. The honey- bee is one of the most beneficial of those insects which carry pollen from one fiower to another. Such cross-pollinB/- tion is frequently es- sential to the pro- duction of fruit and, among all the insects which s
. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. Beekeeping In addition to the value of the honeybee as a honey- producer, it has a value to agriculture which is probably far greater. Peculiarly enough, the bee- keeper is usually not the one who receives the greatest profit from the presence of his bees in the com- munity. The honey- bee is one of the most beneficial of those insects which carry pollen from one fiower to another. Such cross-pollinB/- tion is frequently es- sential to the pro- duction of fruit and, among all the insects which serve the fruit- grower, the honeybee occupies a unique position. In the spring, the time when their services are most needed, other insects are often few in number and there is no way of prop- agating them. In the case of the honeybee, however, it is relatively easy to carry to the or- chard thousands of in- sects, which are ready, in favorable weather, to aid the fruit-grower in return for the small amount of nectar obtained (Fig. 2). In many orchards the. Fig. 4. — Group of Caucasian hives. HI. 31. iimiiiiinr^^lhi r R'"' TkiGrtJz "BeeAwt Fig. S. — An old Greelc Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd.
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